St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-27
SMALL AT HIS BEST.
The Ex-Editor breaches to an Audience
Which Completely Fills the Ex-
position Auditorium.
BE Takes His Text for the Afternoon
Sermon From the Nineteenth
Chapter of Acts.
A Sister From the Salvation Army
Leads i'll Prayer-->ome of
Small's sayings.
zones Delivers Short Sermon In the
Evening--The Pith of the
Services.

The attendance at the Jones-Small re-
yival at the Minneapolis Exposition build
ing continues to fill the large auditorium
twice every day. Yesterday afternoon the
bright weather attracted large audience,
to which Sam Small poured out one of his
spicieSt efforts. A sister from the Saliva
tion army led in prayer, and at every
pause was greeted with 4 salvo of amens.
In the evening, to goodly congregation.
Sam Jones delivered a short sermon, touch
ing up nearly everything in his caustic,
epigrammatic style. SmalFS afternoon SER
mon was as follows:
l read from the 18th chapter of Acts: "And
it came to pass that while Apollos was at
Coriuth, Paul having passed through the
upper coasts came to EpheSuS. and finding
certain disciples he said unto them, have ye
received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?
And they said unto him we have not so much
as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Aud he said unto them, unto what then were
We baptized? And they said unto Johns
baptism. Then said Paul, John verify bap-
tiZed with the baptism of repentance, saying
unto the people tnat they should believe on
him which should come unto him. that is, on
Christ Jesus. When they heard this they
were baptized Ill the name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them
the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they
Spake with tongues and prophesied and all
the men were about twelve. And he went into
the synagogue and Spake boldly for about the
space OF three months, diSputing and per-
suading the things concerning the Kingdom
Of God. But when divers were hardened,
and believed not, but spake evil Of that way
before the multitude he departed from them
and separated the disciples, disputing daily in
the school of one ryranuuS. And this con-
tinued by the space of two years; so that all
they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of
the Lord Jesus both Jews and Greeks. And
many that believed came and confessed and
showed their deeds. Many of them also which
used curious arts brought their books to-
gether and burned them before all men; and
they counted the price Of them and found it
5U 900 pieces of silver. So nightly grew the
word of the Lord and prevailed L have read
these verses from the 18th chapter as they re-
cord the history of this incident and Of these
twenty seven months of the
LABORS OF ST. PAUL
at Ephesus, because | want US to understand
the difficulties which met St. Paul on that oc-
caSion. And / want US to understand that
these difficulties have projected themselves
all through the centuries and are found and
encountered to-day just as they were in
Ephesus. And | want us to discover what is
the trouble and how many of these difficulties
stand in the way of the growth of the word of
God here in Minneapolis. and discover if we
And l go back and take the text from the
second verse: He said unto them, have We
received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?
And they said unto Him, we have not so much
as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost
st. Paul wds wonderfully acute, not only in
his mental constitution but afterwards when
he was enlightened and learned of the Lord
Jesus Christ by the processes of that
spiritual knowledge which comes from
the endowment of the Holy Ghost.
He was spiritually acute, and when he went
into community it didn't take him very long
to discover all the key notes OF the situation,
with almost divine pressure, because it was
done with the help of the Holy Spirit, what
were the difficulties in the way of the spread
and triumph of the gospel in that particular
place. And when he went down to Ephesus
and,found q few disciples who had been to-
gether there who had begun ahead of him,
he said to them, Il greet ye as disciples of
the Lord Jesus Christ" But he began to
look at their situation, at their life, to hear
their talk, to discover all of the manners of
their walk and conversation, and life, and
thought, and purpose, and their eternal
hopes. And he pretty soon discovered that
those disciples down at Ephesus were labor
ing.
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
He saw there was something wrong, and rad
lcally wrong in their conception of Chris
gianity, and he put to them the crucial uues-
tion. He put to them the question which
then and now determines by the answer
whether person is Christian or not. He
sand, Have you received the Holy Ghost since
ye believed? And they answered him frank
ly and honestly, and said, Why. we have not
so much as heard whether there be any Holy
Ghost. And that explained the whole situ-
alton to st. Paul. He understood in an in
stant what their difficulties were, what their
trials were, and he understood promptly how
hopeless was their case, how hopeless were
all their efforts, and how fruitless must be
their lives in their endeavor to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and live up to the standard
that their belief demanded without the head,
bnownedge, belp. and power and pres
ence of the Holy Ghost in their
lives. They said to him frankly what their
situation was, for they said I'VE have been
baptized in the baptism of John; we have re-
pented, that was the full extent of it; we have
repented and been baptized and taken upon
ourselves the name of Christians" And that
was outward, that was external and it was
only internal so far as it went to their con-
sciences and to their minds, and to their hu-
man judgment of the necessities of the stu
alton, and it never reached their spiritual
life. St. Paul said to them, that they must
be baptized and believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ. And they were baptized in the name
OF the Lord Jesus Christ, and he laid hands
upon them after the apostolic fashion and
they received the Holy Ghost and immedi-
ately power came to them. They spake with
number
men was about twelve-they were all that
St. Paul had gathered around him. And to
run rapidly through the history
FOR A MOMENT
only, you see what follows. and what occurred
as the result of that endowment of power by
the Holy Ghost st. Paul went into the syna-
gogae and preached for two years. persuad-
ing and dSputing things concerning the
kingdom of God, and he stayed there
for the space of three months, and
he disputed with them, and he began
there to preach the truth of Jesus Christ in
ali its simplicity, in all of its truth aad in all
of itsIintegrty, and he began to draw the
line, and drew 1t clearly, plainly, unmistak-
ably in the eyes of all those people between
the practices of the world around about them
of the idolators of the temple of Diana, and
the people who lived in the midst of all their
amusements and every commerce practiced
and all of the things that went to make I'D
the life Of that day. st. Paul preached it with
all the power that the Holy Ghost could give
him, and they only let him stay in the
synagogue about three months and then they
kicked him out. Why? Because divers of
them were hardened and believed not on that
way and began to speak evil of that way be-
fore the multitude. Poor, frail human ma
ture propogates itself, reproduces itself, re-
appears III all It's abnormal features in all the
ages and generations of men. Ever see any
thing of that kind in Minneapolis? Did you
ever see anything of the kind when one of
the faithful preachers of God mounted his
pulpit in this town and began to preach the
truth of Jesus Christ with all the power and
with ali the sincerity, and with all interritv
sparing nobody and sparing nothing, hewing
the line with the gospel ax-the truth Of God
Ever heard any Of the congregation saying:
He is too rash, and too harsh, and too strict
and too puritanical and too close in his ideas
to come out and talk that way before the
multitude, seeking sympathy for
+ IrEl
and wounded conscfences among the sinners
of the town. l don't know whether you ever